[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo-ST:
Bricked it by installing a theme, will pay to whoever solves this

I need your help guys...

My phone was stock Eclair JM1. I noticed it's laggy so I wanted to try something, not just lagfix. The JM1 was so bad that it didn't even have a 3-button recovery available, so I first took care of that by using this fix, which proved to be a success. I finally had the possibility to enter recovery and download mode.

So now, before I started anything, I rooted it so I can do complete ROM backup with ROM Manager / Clockworkmod. I did that, and whole ROM was backed up on the sd-card (and I saved it to my computer as well). Clockwork works fine because I left CW's update.zip in root of sd-card so I can access it if needed.

Then I saw Darky's Raw Steel ROM based on Froyo and wanted to install it. I followed the instructions and all went well. The phone booted, the ROM is really fast and optimized but I didn't like the looks of it, so I went to change that. That's where my troubles began.

I saw the AndroDena's theme and wanted to install it. I've already tried it before on Eclair and it succeeded. I liked the theme so now I wanted it on Darky's ROM, to change all that greyness.

I did everything as I did on Eclair. I rebooted the phone and instead of the new theme, the phone did not boot. After logo the screen would go off and the phone would vibrate from time to time.

Since I'm still green at this, I got scared and just wanted everything back. That's where I made second mistake. I entered the Clockworkmod and chose to restore my original image. It soon proved to be a mistake because to do that properly, Voodoo lagfix should have been disabled first (although I don't know how could I do that if my phone won't even boot?).

The restore from Clockwork started, finished, then I rebooted the phone. Now it won't go past the Samsung logo, just stays there. Even recovery mode doesn't work no more.

Download mode still works (it loads it, but even that is suspicious).

Since I didn't get any concrete advices on Darky's thread, I decided to try to fix this on my own. The phone is already bricked, so I though what's there more to lose.

First, since my recovery mode doesn't work, I tried to fix that by flashing the bootloader again via Odin, by the same method as mentioned above already.

It didn't repair the bootloader - nothing changed.

Then I downloaded a complete JM1 firmware with .pit file and three .tar files for use with Odin. I read somewhere that it's the only way to completely wipe the phone with new firmware (and need to check the re-partition in Odin).

Since I had the download mode, complete firmware and Odin (Odin sees the phone at COM20), I went to do that.

I've read some guides and tried to flash it. It didn't work. Odin would start and stop at the first step, factoryfs.rfs.

I tried another method too, to first re-partition with only the .pit file, reset, and then try to flash .tar files without re-partition - it didn't work either. Stops at the first step, Kernel, zImage.

So now I'm really out of ideas. I'd like to avoid sending it to official service because of the obvious reasons, and the phone is rooted.

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. I will donate 20€ to anyone who helps me out with this. It is urgent, I really need the phone.

Thank you.